Amit Kamath is an Assistant Editor with the sports team of The Indian Express. Based out of Mumbai, Amit works with the online sports desk. He primarily writes on chess and Olympic sports, and co-hosts the Game Time podcast, a weekly offering from Express Sports. He also writes a weekly chess column, On The Moves. In the past two years, he has covered chess events like the FIDE World Cup 2025, Norway Chess (2024 and 2025), the Global Chess League 2024 and the Tata Steel India Rapid and Blitz tournament in Kolkata from the ground. ...Read More
Amit Kamath is an Assistant Editor with the sports team of The Indian Express. Based out of Mumbai, Amit works with the online sports desk. He primarily writes on chess and Olympic sports, and co-hosts the Game Time podcast, a weekly offering from Express Sports. He also writes a weekly chess column, On The Moves. In the past two years, he has covered chess events like the FIDE World Cup 2025, Norway Chess (2024 and 2025), the Global Chess League 2024 and the Tata Steel India Rapid and Blitz tournament in Kolkata from the ground.
He has 15 years of experience as a journalist, with stints for five Indian media organisations before joining The Indian Express. He has a keen interest in the way sport affects society and vice versa and tries to look at stories beyond the black and white narratives of stats and scores.
He was one of the only 20 Indian journalists on the ground to cover the deferred Tokyo Olympics in 2021. He has also covered the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.
